Vivian Schiller, chief digital officer at NBC, is joining Twitter as head of news partnerships at the beginning of the new year.

She’s a veteran of the New York Times, Discovery Communications and NPR.

Twitter, which is slated to go public next month, began its search for a top news hound in April.

It then posted a job specs notice saying the job is “responsible for devising and executing the strategies that make Twitter indispensable to newsrooms and journalists, as well as an essential part of the operations and strategy of news organizations and TV news networks.”

Twitter announced the new hire via a tweet.